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24%OFFMichelle Dean - Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion - 9780349005409 - V9780349005409
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Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

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Description for Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
From journalist Michelle Dean, winner of the National Book Critics Circle's 2016 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, Sharp combines biography, original research, and critical reading into a powerful portrait of ten writers who managed to make their voices heard amidst a climate of sexism and nepotism, from the 1920s to the 1990s. Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Mary McCarthy, Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, Janet Malcolm, Renata Adler, Pauline Kael, and Nora Ephron-these are the main characters of Sharp. Their lives intertwine. They enable each other and feud, manufacture unique spaces and voices, and haunt ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Fleet
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349005409
SKU
V9780349005409
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10

About Michelle Dean
Michelle Dean is a journalist, critic and the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle's 2016 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. A contributing editor at the New Republic, she has written for the New Yorker, Nation, New York Times Magazine, Slate, New York Magazine, Elle and BuzzFeed. She lives in New York City.

Reviews for Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
These crisp mini-portraits of some of 20th-century America's most brilliant women writers - like Joan Didion, Dorothy Parker and Nora Ephron - are so inspiring
Carina Axelsson A fascinating analysis of brilliant female writers. By the end you'll want to read something by all of them
Evening Standard
Michelle Dean's Sharp, a portrait of 10 female writers ... Read more

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